The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ous Vapours, the Breath of Animals, and fuchlike , is moil unwholefome. In Afthmas, Confumptions, and Nervous Complaints, the Temperature of the Air is a material Confideration, and of great Im- portance. A light, dry, and warm Air is belt for weak, and difeafed Lungs, and a dry and cold, or temperate Air is fitted: for relaxed, and nervous People. The Benefit of Change of Air is known to every Body, and many People find, by Experience, that a Change even to a more indifferent Air is fometimes attended with Advantage. The Reafon of which is ma- nifeft from what has been already faid con- cerning the Qualities and EfFedts of Air. The Changes of Air ought not, in any Cafe, to be too fudden, or too much in the extreme; the more gradual they are, the lefs Danger is incurred. In all Fevers, but efpecially thofe of the putrid Kind, Ventilation, or the Admiflion of